Jessica Valenzuela, Partner at Gibson Dunn

Today, my guest is Jessica Valenzuela, a Partner in the Palo Alto office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Securities Litigation Practice Group.  Jessica’s practice focuses on securities, corporate governance and other complex business litigation, including the defense of securities class actions, derivative suits and M&A-related class actions.  

In addition to representing clients in state and federal courts, she also represents companies, boards and special committees in government and internal investigations and counsels public and private companies and their directors and officers about a wide range of issues relating to corporate governance, insider trading, disclosure obligations, director and executive compensation matters and litigation risk and strategy. Jessica graduated from Stanford Law School with distinction in 2002 and received her BA from Stanford University in 1999, where she graduated with departmental honors.

Hsu Untied interview with Jessica Valenzuela